Very good stats, and amazing that Tigers have 15% bigger crowds than anyone else, despite much cheaper tickets in France.
And to have such a revenue without a sugar daddy that the French have is unbelievable. Saints are our nearest comparable rivals and are £6M down !

"Includes domestic home league matches only in 2010/11 (not including play-off matches or European Rugby cup matches or other fixtures)
Average for each club is for matches played in their normal home stadium, and does not include figures for home matches played by certain clubs in larger stadia."

But if teams play regular season domestic league home matches in other stadia (bigger than their "normal" home stadia), they can still claim the attendances as theirs (after all, people have turned up to see them).

Stade Français' average for the 2010-11 season (in all stadia) was 26,174 and Toulouse's was 22,070 - see [www.lnr.fr] under affluences. Leicester Tigers had a total home attendance (in all stadia) of 252,195 - an average home domestic league attendance of 22,927 - so I think you can only claim to be the 2nd most attended team in Europe (as far as regular season domestic league matches go), between Stade Français and Toulouse

How do Stade Toulousaine manage to make 50% more quids than us? What are they doing?

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To begin at the beginning:

It is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless
and bible-black, the cobblestreets silent and the hunched,
courters'-and-rabbits' wood limping invisible down to the
sloeblack, slow, black, crowblack, fishingboatbobbing sea.

Toulouse own the stade Ernest Wallon themselves. The stade Municipal where Toulouse FC play is as it sounds the council owned stadium.

I also don't know who is their "sugar daddy"? Their main sponsors are Peugeot and Orange, which I think might have more to do with having higher revenues? Aren't Airbus another sponsor?

The fact the French league has one game a week on terrestial tele (as I understand happy to be corrected) andd all the rest available on satelite means they get more money from TV and get more exposure=more sponsorship income.

Toulouse also have a much better clothing/kit range which I'm sure helps them eek out more of a difference.

Toulouse also have a much better clothing/kit range which I'm sure helps them eek out more of a difference.

Certainly true.

and I understand all the above I was just wondering about the extent of the differential.

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To begin at the beginning:

It is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless
and bible-black, the cobblestreets silent and the hunched,
courters'-and-rabbits' wood limping invisible down to the
sloeblack, slow, black, crowblack, fishingboatbobbing sea.

That is also true. Their merchandise is really classy and the shop is right in the middle of town near the Cathedral-Town Hall Square (and yards from my late mum's friend's appartment) - much to be learned from les Rouge et Noirs.

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To begin at the beginning:

It is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless
and bible-black, the cobblestreets silent and the hunched,
courters'-and-rabbits' wood limping invisible down to the
sloeblack, slow, black, crowblack, fishingboatbobbing sea.

Rich WThat is also true. Their merchandise is really classy and the shop is right in the middle of town near the Cathedral-Town Hall Square (and yards from my late mum's friend's appartment) - much to be learned from les Rouge et Noirs.

And to be fair it seems they have been...

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To begin at the beginning:

It is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless
and bible-black, the cobblestreets silent and the hunched,
courters'-and-rabbits' wood limping invisible down to the
sloeblack, slow, black, crowblack, fishingboatbobbing sea.

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